Subject: History of Science

• “Creating Space City, USA”

  “Houston…the Eagle has landed.”

  February 19, 2009

• Overblown and Underrated

  So you know Houston's goats, heroes and high points? Think again.

  February 1, 2001

• Diner's Notebook

  June 15, 1995

• Moonstruck

  July 6, 1995

• The Write Stuff

  July 6, 1995

• The Insider

  March 7, 1996

• Sputnik at Colonus

  May 23, 1996

• Retro Rocket

  February 18, 1999

• The 1940 Air Terminal Museum’s Aviation History Day

  March 19, 2009

• The Harley Party

  Texas Motorcycle Rights Association

  June 29, 2000

• The Third Side Launch Party

  Origin of a play

  April 23, 2009

• Sputnik Declassified

  Web exclusive!

  April 23, 2009

• Dark Matter: Five Gothic Tales of Horror

  Be prepared to be afraid

  July 5, 2007

• Coming Down

  A "routine" shuttle descent winds up stunning Space City

  February 6, 2003

• Coming Down

  A "routine" shuttle descent winds up stunning Space City

  January 30, 2003

• Space Invaders

  The Chron loves another convention

  October 17, 2002

• Vans Warped Tour

  Saturday, June 29

  June 27, 2002

• Airborne Again

  The Lone Star Flight Museum celebrates Galveston's place in aviation history

  April 25, 2002

• No Boosters Allowed

  Flight directory Chris Kraft has a story to tell

  February 28, 2002

• Gallows Humor

  Elizabeth I gives us the skinny on all sorts of bad behavior

  July 19, 2001

• In God's Country

  William Dembski thought Baylor University would be the perfect place to investigate a scientific alternative to Darwinism. Little did he realize he would be crucified for his cause.

  December 14, 2000

• The (Balding) Eagle Has Landed

  Clint Eastwood's charming Space Cowboys tosses youth demographics out the cargo bay

  August 3, 2000

• Man in the Moon

  Writer James Schefter

  July 15, 1999

• Moon Shots

  At the MFA, lunar imagery blurs the line between science and art

  January 26, 1995

• Houston, We Have A....Ah, Forget About It. How Jim Lovell's Kid Learned About His Dad's Adventures

  Houstonians have always had a special place in their heart for Apollo 13, the Tom Hanks movie that chronicles the only moon mission that didn't make it.(And for the mission itself, of course, which unfortunately enough gave us the "Houston, we have a problem" cliche that leads to lots and lots of lazy writing.One of the scenes in the film depicts Commander Jim Lovell's son, who is at military school, being told of the accident that's put his dad in harm's way.In a feature on the restaurant that

  May 8, 2009

• The Rockets, Joining The Pantheon Of Those Who Gave Up Surprising Momentum

  Hey, how'd those Rockets do last night?!Oh.In case you missed it, Our Rockets (and by "Our," we mean "team we started cheering for a week ago"), got shellacked by the Lakers 118-78. Everyone had expected the injury-riddled Houston team to lose like that -- in Sunday's game, which they had won.That Sunday victory immediately and inexplicably raised the hopes of Rockets fans that this was a Team of Destiny, who could then go on to finish the the job of upsetting the best team in the west in the s

  May 13, 2009

• 21st Annual Young Inventors Showcase

  May 28, 2009

• "Moon FTW IRL!" -- Apollo 11, As If They Had Twitter Then

  You know what sucked about the moon landing? They didn't Twitter it.If it's not on Twitter, we're not sure we can trust that it happened. Even if the headlines say otherwise.Now, however, the problem is solved, thanks to the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston.They've put together an impressive "relive it as it happened" multi-media site and they've also got a "as if they were Twittering" account.At 8:54 a.m. June 27, they Twittered forth to friend and foe alike "Associated Press just released tha

  July 14, 2009

• Five Best Apollo 11 Myths

  Photo courtesy NASAA salute to Mr. JablonskiHey, guess what!! Monday brings the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing!!Oh, you heard? Well, get ready to hear more -- this weekend and Monday will no doubt be a "One small step for man" marathon.Which is fine -- the moon mission was a crazy, awe-inspiring thing that could have gone wrong a million ways but didn't. Even though the Apollo program cost about a trillion dollars in today's money, it did give us Tang.And it also gave us our five

  July 15, 2009

• Spacefest: 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

  July 16, 2009

• NASA Lets You Eavesdrop On Apollo 11's Private Conversations

  NASA is continuing its information dump for the 40th anniversary of the moon landing; now they have put on the `net digital recordings of some of the private in-capsule conversations of the Apollo 11 astronauts."You're in a spacecraft, on a mission to land on the moon for the first time in history, and the microphone to Earth is off," NASA's release says. "What do you say? Now you can listen in on a NASA Web site and find out."Transcripts, which have been available previously, enable you to foll

  July 15, 2009

• Dawn of the Space Age

  July 16, 2009

• Playing Neil Armstrong On The Screen: The "Jesus Curse," Redux

  Photo by NASAIn the old days of Hollywood, they used to talk of "the Jesus Curse" -- any actor who played JC on screen was thereafter soomed to obscurity.Does the same thing happen to actors who play Neil Armstrong? There aren't as many Apollo 11 movies as you might expect, but the evidence still is strong:5) Apollo 11 -- A 1996 made-for-TV movie, Armstrong is played by Jeffrey Nordling. Yes,the Jeffrey Nordling, the one who had played Coach Ted Orion in Mighty Ducks 3: Direct to Video!!, or wh

  July 20, 2009

• Houston 101: Neighborhood Of Astronauts

  ​Nowadays, being an astronaut just doesn't have the cachet it once did. But back in the 1960s, astronauts were celebrities, and an obscure neighborhood near Clear Lake was their Beverly Hills.Timber Cove was a development of what today would be considered smallish homes -- no McMansions here -- on small cul-de-sacs and streets, surrounded by water and trees. Astronauts flocked there.Anyone who's watched Apollo 13 remembers Kathleen Quinlan as Marilyn Lovell, telling a NASA flack that reporters

  August 25, 2009

• Houston Museum of Natural Science: Mummies in 3D: Secrets of the Pharaohs

  October 8, 2009